Hello SG community !

It's been a long road but here i am... soon in the level 9 club where another long road awaits me to the top level.

LEVEL 2+ / End: May 29th 18pm CEST
Train ticket: q***u
Tips: Think simple

edit 1:
I was asked privately for the list of games so I'm sharing it here - there's nothing secret about it.
Izmir: An Independence Simulator
Planet TD
Frick, Inc.
Doughlings: Arcade
Doughlings: Invasion
Stacking
The Inner World
Zombie Driver HD Complete Edition
The Chant

Good luck everyone ツ

edit 2:
Thanks to all the participants and thanks for all your messages.
Congratulations to the winners. Have fun with the games.

The Solution:

To be honest, it's so simple that I probably wouldn't have found it myself if I'd been faced with this puzzle πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚
When mouse-over the image you had the indication: "First Up", which meant that the first letter of the missing code had to be capitalized, and consequently the following 2 were not.
Then I couldn't make it any simpler than putting in the image of a key, because it's simply the missing code.
So i had to replace the stars with "Key" and insert it in a classic steamgift url
Which gives the url: https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/qKeyu/

View attached image.
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Begins 28th 18pm CEST

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Oops... sorry for that...

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It'sstart. My appologies.

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I was stumped for a minute, but eventually figured out what I was doing wrong. Thanks :)

Congrats on level 9. I've been slowly working my way from 7 to 8 for a long time and not sure if I will ever get to 9 at this rate. I mostly give bundle leftovers and I very rarely find any good bundles to buy anymore.

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Well, I thought so too, but with time, even little by little, you get there.
I passed level 8 on December 5, 2021... it took me a while to get to level 9 lol
Hang in there!

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Early congrats on getting to level 9. πŸ˜ŽπŸ’™

Thanks for the train! The last cart is especially nice.

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Thank you and good luck !

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Thanks for the train

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Bump, thanks for the train!

1 year ago
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Bump for solved!
Congratulations for you milestone :)

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Thanks for the train and gratz on imminent level 9, Tucs :)

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Think simple

That's where I'm stuck probably. I just can't think simple ;)

Kudos on level 9! I'll never get to level 8 I think.

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You're so close to level 8 so Go for it :P
And for the puzzle sometime i have the same problem but think as simple as you can... be dumb and made me proud.

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I was being dumb. Just not thorough enough ;)

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Congratulations! It's nice to see when perseverance pays off :)

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End: May 28th 18pm CEST

End date is 29th isn't it?

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That's corrected. Thank you =)

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Congrats on the leveling. I think I'll get to 8 this year, and probably will make a celebration train too.
But you ask me to "think". Man, that's hard!

Edit: solved. Yes, think simple.

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Congrats :) And good luck for your own road.
On the contrary, I asked you not to think :P

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Congrats!

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Congrats on (soon) reaching level 9!

Hope to get there someday myself. Slowly, but surely, I'll make my way there.

Bump for solved. Simple indeed, but clever nonetheless.

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It's a long way to go, but with time you'll get there. Courage to you and thank you for your participation.

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Thank you i appreciate.

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Hmm... i must be thinking too simple as neither 123 or abc work.

Will try again after some coffee.

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I'd say it's even simpler than that :D

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aaa, 111, 222, 1Up, TTT, key, Gle, Sim, FUp, ... and a few others.

Also checked the html code just in case you thought that was simple.

Interestingly difficult puzzle.
Looks like i fail at "Think simple"...
Maybe more possibilities will come to me as i'm doing chores...

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did you manage to solve it? i still cant solve it even after hours of trying

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Nope.
Just came back with the hopes i'd see something simple i had yet to try, but nothing really stands out.

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i guess we arent thinking simple enough, i have no idea what OP considers as simple, the image of the key is throwing me off, is that supposed to be like some sort of well known key?

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Commonly known as a skeleton key.

But what bother me is the hint when you hover the mouse over the picture.... "First Up"

It's not 1Up, 1up, or FUp, so it just makes it more confusing.
What else could be first up? The sun? But birds are "up" before then, and i assume at this point i'm overthinking it again.

I'm not even that interested in the games. Just want an answer to this annoying riddle!

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You are so close.

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Ugh! It's been 24 hours, and i'm starting my day again with coffee, and this message inspiring me to finish figuring out this puzzle.

"Thx" for the reminder :p

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😭did u figure it out?

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Sadly, no. None of my attempts haave worked.. I did find one giveaway by accident, but it gave me a page saying i wasn't a member of the group.

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Hmm I might be too simple, didn't even think of those
I went for the simple ones like key, eze, rst

Its a good example of how different peoples brains work though

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aaa, 111, 222, 1Up, TTT....

Says it's simple, but there multiple points that could be hints, and i have zero idea of what OP considers to be "simple"...

Think simple
First up - image text pop-up
22222222 - image name

As you said, simple things like key doesnt work. So this is one of the harder ones to puzzle through, as there seem to be too many hints.

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Congrats-bump!

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Happy to help! ;)

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I keep trying to think simple, key, 123,, 111, aaa, abc, and still nothing. Apparently my ex was right that I am a complicated person.

It's probably something very obvious, but I don't get it

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yeah, the simplest thing i can think of is just keysmashing but i don't think that's likely to give me the right 3 characters

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Bump

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Bump!

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Thanks for the ride and congrats on your new level! :)

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how simple is simple? i cant seem to get it right even after an hour πŸ’€

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It's improbable, so it's complicated, but you have to look for simplicity.
After that, it depends on your brain. I'm sure I'd have had trouble finding it myself because I'd have searched too hard.

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bump

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Good luck!

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Well done!

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Closed 1 year ago by Tucs.